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1971 英文中學會考試題預習專欄

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

新光出版社主編 SUNLIGHT

PRESS

經濟及公共事務科 (

CECONOMIC AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

LESSON ONE. INTRODUCTION.

NIst Nov., 1970

ubiouite and Public Affairs as a subject in the 1971 Hong: Kong Certificate of Education (English) Examination consists of

wo papers, one with essay questions, and the other with multiple choice questions. The former, occupying. sixty per cent of the total marks, has a time: limit of one hour forty minutes while the latter, forty per cent and fifty minutes. Usually, candidates will find the assay questions more difficult because essay questions are different from multiplé choice questions it a way that you have to construc paragraphs out. of your materials in mind, if not to recite, and to present them.in good order and up to the point: Thus, this weekly calumn will emphasize on directing: you how essay questions.can be tackled. It also intends to train you to think independently and analytically rather than to memorize, or worse than that, to recite, more facts frorn the text-books. You should always bear in mind; *To ruminate, not to devour"!

f History is referred to as a record of the past, then, Economic and Public Affairs as a study of present society can well De regarded as a record of the present. Things in History are dead- but things in Economic and Public Affairs (referring to our subject here) as still:aliye. A new legislation may overthrow things mention- ed in a text-book. Thus, to keep a fresh record of all your materials in hand, you are strongly advised to keep a scrap-book:in which useful and relevant cuttings from the newspapers are pasted togeth systematically. (To achieve this, you may divide the pages of your scrap-book into sections chronologically and then into sub-sections topically or vice

You should form the habit of reading newspaper.everyday paying special attention to the current eyents, the editorial and the feature-writings

Besides, documeritary programmes in radıd or television c do very much to widen your range of common knowledge in public affairs.

The syllabus for this subject is quoted for your reteren

ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

A paper or two and a Half hours will be set...

The paper will be divided into two sections, Candidates must. attempt both sections.

Section Awill consist of a series of short questionsi Section B. will consist of a choice of essay questions. Candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of born econ

·mic and públic affairs in each section..

In the following.syllabus, general principles should be Hustrated throughout by examples from Hong Kong. Attention should be paic. to current events which illustarte the topics studied. It is hot neces- sary to memorize lists of statistics.

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

Some Basic Economic ideas

The producer and the consumer; primary, secondary and tertiary producers, their interdependence; stages in the flow of goods to the..

final consumer; the division of labour

Modern factories, mass production, the shift system, The different kinds of industry found in Hong Kong.

Population -

The census and by-census in Hong Kong, their importance.

Changes of population, birth and death rates, immigration and ein gration.

tion..

Outline of changes in Hong Kong since 1931

Sex and age distribution, geographical and occupational distribu-

The Factors of Production.

Land; the natural resources of the country, limited and geographt cally fixed

Labour: size of population, age distribution, health and working: capacity, education and training; wages; mobility of labour Capital: capital goods; their accumulation and maintena Management: organization and technical know-how.

The Location of Industry

Factors which may determine location:

Changes due to modern developments, e.g.in transport Government encouragement to industry in Hong Kong.

Imports and Exports:

The advantages and difficulties of international trade.. Hong Kong's imports and exports, their nature and flov Invisible earnings and tourism.

The Marketing of Product!

Demand, supply and price; the relation between them; marginal utility.

Elasticity of demand and supply, equilibrium price, Perfect and imperfect competition.

Ownership in Industry

Private and public enterprise, the sole proprietor, partnership, the limited company, public utilities, Government ownership in Hong Kong.

Stocks and shares, the stock exchange:

Large and small scale industry, advantages and limitations; optimum size for production; the survival of the small firm; specialization combination; monopoly.

Money, Banking and Insurance":

Different forms of money, the use of credit; inflation and deflation. Banking facilities, their importance in industry: the Banking:Or dinance.

Insurance

Public Finance.

Direct and indirect taxes, with examples.

2.

Main objects of public expenditure.

The annual budget..

Public Revenue and Expenditure in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong as a Colony-

The Qeuen.

Hong Kong and the British Parliament

The Constitution of Hong Kong

Letters Patent, Royal Instructions..

The Governor and his functions, the Governor-in-Council,

The Executive and Legislative Conucils, their membership and fume: tions; standing committees..

How a law is made.

The Urban Council, its membership and functions..

The Administration of Hong Kong.

' The Colonial Secretary, the Financial Secretary, the Secretary for Home Affairs,

The Government Departments and the Civil Service,

The New Territories Administration.

The Heung Yee Kuk, Rural Committees and their duties.

The Government and the Citizen

The government's responsibility to provide necessary services and protect the citizen..

The citizen's duty to co-operate, the importance of the individual s work, character and sercvie::

Aid given by voluntary societies,

Water and Food Supply

The provision of adequate and safe water supply.

Markets, licences to sell food, inspection of food preparation.

Government encouragement to agriculture and fishing

Land and Housing

Government ownership of land; Crown Jease; sale by auction and private treaty."

Reclamation of Land....

Overcrowding, its causes and effects,

Squatter areas, dangerous structures. Resettlement estates.

Low-cost housing: Voluntary, Housing Authonty, Government,

Private building; P.W.D. supervision,

Trade and Industry

Trade promotion, integrity in trade and industry, maintenance or standards...

Commercial and industrial organizations,

-The Department of Commerce and Industry and its activities.

Labour:

Wages, working hours and tactory conditions including surety pre-

cautions...

The Labour Department and its activities Trade Unions and their functions.

Craiiting for management and trade tinion leadership. Health

Government, arded and private hospitals and clumics.

Health education in schools and clinics.:

The prevention of infectiotis diseases.

Functions of blood; reasons for blood donation, Port Health

Public Health,

Education

Government, aided and private schools.

Primary, secondary and post-secondary education,

Adult education, - vert

The Educatoni Department and the Board of Education Social Welfare:

Government aims; relief and rehabilitation.

Co-operation with many voluntary agencies, sponsored locally and

overseas.

The relief of the.destitute and victims ot emergencies. The care of orphans..

Youth Services, sich is Boys' and Girls' Clibs, Scouts and Guides; Work for cripples and the blind:

Community centres.

Drug addiction: Shek Kwu Chau Rehabilitation Centre

Juvenile delinquency: contributing factors.:

The work of irobation officers,

The Press. Radio and Television.

Their

unctions and i

Protection against Law Breakers

The police: protection of the citizen, powers or arrest.

The courts: the?independence of the judiciary:

Civil and criminal cases.

The Magistrate's Court,

The District Court.

The Suprene Court: trial by jury.

The principles of British justice, the ngnts of the accuseg Prisons: deterrent and reformative.

U.N.O. and its Links with Hong Kong

The aims of U.NO. and the main duties of its.members. The main organs and thier chief functoins:

The Declaration of Human Rights

Regional commissions, e.g. E.CA,FE..

Commissions on Narcotic Drugs and the Status of Women SU.NICEF. and the Commission on Refugees.

Technical assistance.

The Special Agencies, their general purpose and relation to the life

and laws of Hong Kong.

Now, try. the following two questions. The answers will be.

given to you next week, Bit always remember that your answers. to essay questions should. He:-

in essay form,

up to point,

complete,

in at least readable English

5. in legible hand-writing,

win orderly presentation,"

7. in proper length, and

in appropriate proportion.

EXERCISE I

. Describe the process of how a law.is made in Hong Kong.

What are the rights, privileges and duties of a citizen in a society which is under the rule of law?

日一月一十年〇七九一屦公年九十五國民華中 育教僑華

郑中文成爲法定語交運

第二次中學生論壇

在崇基舉行

任感及据言社會化成

政府應表示中英文時可的事。香港理分类

,並在各機關使用中文

一臀及凱榨譯人材。 ,扯行中英文业霸之教,因這制變複製生不能

一地位相同的人,近颏们一民族主癯,然翟及里,

中蠅以英語,難度排燈

「方個,亦可能將六一文的報應的很遠比風動做了些件麼明

改爲一元化,中英文號

到。本來人蔡喜在會談時數一不要問別人在北越動中

塑膠人從學

發言者踴躍

做

中交成為法定語文運息大堂的反黨記號。某 随卽從此兩個角碶研究 上隣抑另一民族時,学 得外國語文。沈博士,民族在政治上和文化,阿米飛同學亦在會,後各同學合唱中

,何和熱文:能迅速表

·(班)雷米本上生,胡鴻烈风首次地政達思,自由

一致支持中文應有法定地位之間短。從畫用截图界,但人大哥本来航融的大一生覺得此運似好出創為一職鐵》

顯理中學慶祝校慶

,

面,英及官方 末脫交規定,但袛一 鸿之日前成就,爲中

陳以同學,花 |生及何難飛科學,出席

莒學院,就宣仁博士, 一品方同學,符者包括粜前成立公出上 蒸熱院舉行,至府爲州逹六年後,藍 帶會主辦之中暴生論壇,局提出把中文列爲T官艺;象微方面有·英文 於昨日假中交大學生,方為文」,龍茶今日,一個就民地主效,同日舉行籌募助學金經費換物會

多一個爲官方唯一文國小於詐批一一被物會之目的在於,愛後由梁守仁主持剪, ... 來賓參加者極踴躍 成績美滿

動

高宗布該各同學能以行。一種語文是否有其賞一作,如果中英女地位不一,酸鐵管 王文學校監讀,潘子

直到仁博士党特出之,來實上,唐帝開常典過由子地收一來,受助學子線年發加一個離的 6 潑。為

那否定少的外國人對香,後跟羅助學金認要系物,該校自躜此活所以 | 行河北五科尔校岛纪念一點,使能完成小航段始。

語文之貌做價值,在於「爲公定語文,運動對

明之經過,指出中交述其能表示個人之身停地 學生亦附豐祥市個作用,等于说人,情思痛的

用價值,亦視其能否分後,則對香;士發展有.

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中文中學會考試題預習專欄

地理科

前言

潘桂成。

三地理科第一款合性科目,內容範酌書為廣泛,故在地理學營上須统而是各自然科學如天文、 河、無候、學、物理、化學及生物等,和各社會科學如病史、及文化等之部份知識和理論 ~,用综合性的方法,才能易於行對各地理現象之相互關保加以討論和雕飾,即首先要知道地理環 象的存在件,然後利用各有關地康园子的互相影響的情況以說明之。否則,同學們雖學習多年,若 僅致力於對地名之記證,對跳形,病侯、畅奮、交通等作盲目附和之背部,非但缺乏興趣,更退, 無神靈,徒然浪費時而已。

想空间使有三十期,篇幅有限,固然難以谈得上完術,但因主要希望各同學放樂『塀式 未的方法,故在預李想之解答上,較借重於原因和原則之分析,快各同學或易於理解,卻在各電流 肉料上不作詳細之「記」,故各同學亦必同時參米你們的数料,以互相為證和分析。同時你 添加各表,使各同學對各美其實填之相對有相互關保有較明购之促銷。

揭露中文中學會規定地理科考試範如F 誠卷一(雨小阵 一分部乙二部,共四国光

甲部一国必須作答,為地圖練習

。

內容為开藏雲带125000或1100000地形图,土地利用關及地質麼。我无注意下列 各點:方位、地圖網露、比例尺、圏例,表示地形、地方與高配之方法、坡度、剖面屬, 、、相互镧器、人文活仰及聚落分布等。

乙部塞客三類,黶蓮洲區域地深隆

內容包括對幾個亞之地理概念。而到下列各區應更有詳細之廠,中國及香港。日本及

坡、印製尼西亞及菲律賓。共中无服對中國及香港特別注意。

武松二(南小時)——分甲乙二部,共四溜完秘。

宇部選答二澈,爲自然地理概說。包括国

2.大腸系所屬之地球 地球之自轉及公司。四學之成因,要改之时分,部枠之概念,電

2地落之形態——岩石之分類,內部力及外苞力對地形之影響。

3.海洋之所微海底地、洋流·瑚、鹽

名參照之概念一海區、發送、風、降雨的《因于,香港天氣圖之研議。

5.氣候與自然植物——世界冠候型之分佈及其特徵,網與自然植物之關係及其對人

乙部選答二組,每人文地浠槪說,包括鈰屬如下:

1.人口之分佛與之要城市之興發。

2:業之間之限界及到世界贸易之狀况,尤以稻米、小麥、玉米等粮食作物,棉花

「作物,甘黨及那榮等型所原料、茶、咖啡、可可等好作物,及樹膠爲特別

3.歇業、漁業及林关领安之地理案件及質易狀况。

4.動力冻源如案,石油及水力發饿。及其他礦產資源如鐵、鋁、銅、鋁瑟士之搗及運銷狀 ̇

5.工業與各工業區之時效。

6.交浙照性感貿易之關係。

爲使本預習專欄系統化,特擬就刊出大綱於後

1 E

2:地球自轉與公麟,四季與迷夜

12.人口與一落

11月1日

11月8日:

3,經緯、時間、太陽仰角

11月15日

11月22日

5.岩石,內意力作用

11月29日

6.外能力作用(一)

12月6日

7.外魅力作用(二)

12月13日

12月20日

9.带象因子,氣團興風

12月27日:

10.只排天氣圖

1月3日.

11. 氣候分類與自然植物

1月19日

1月17日

13.

hot

12:

美事。精念作物監機種作物:

1月30日:

2月7日.

16.牧學,漁茶與小

2月14日:

2月21日:

18.工業條件之討論,

2月28日

19. 工業區及其他徵

3月7日

3月14日

3月21日

8月28日:

4月4日

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:4月18日

4月25日

5月25

5月19日

5月16日

5月23日:

20.交而與世界贸易

21

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24·中國富城店(二

25.急特地

26,日本国絲

27 445

28.東南詎島國與馬來西

29. 印鞬及巴斯

30t

此外,地理學習必須賴地圖之協助,一方面多協談印觀之地圈類,從而閦察出各地理想家之分 布關系,尤姆都市之位爾及地名之記憶更其助力。另方面多自繪圖兩路草圖,將跟文內安闔扉

·後,印象必更深刻。附此介紹野地嘛,可少湖暇 :

1.世原地面装—佩營美版

3.

預習類目

1、略越太陽系,

中國挑豆—中國地理模型肚出版

5.OXFORD SCHOOL ATLAS.

2.北區星之似量對我們之用途

4.地球之公司和自轉嗒形成什麼製寶

5.地軸觸料與四季之產生

6.月球之公寓與月之氛齡

7.爲什麽秀迷之夏季會查長夜短贊